To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
To deceive; cheat.
To fly off; to turn aside.
To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
To quail.
To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
A deceit; a trick.
A sidelong glance.
To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt.
obtuse; dull
Having a dull or blunt and soft point